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Radiation is emitted from something and travels from its point of origin to somewhere else.

When radiation hits something else (and is therefore stopped) the thing that has been hit is said to have been irradiated.

Thus a sunbather is undergoing irradiation by radiation emitted by the sun.

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Tavares Cole

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